Yamaha Pacifica Standard Plus PACS+12M Sonic Blue

A Pacifica Standard Plus, combining Californian DNA with modern demands

The Yamaha Pacifica Standard Plus PACS+12 represents the modern evolution of the renowned Pacifica family. It retains the fundamentals that have made this series so successful: a comfortable body shape, a responsive bolt-on construction and electronics designed to cover a wide range of sonic territories. This Standard Plus version goes further with a selection of premium components and a design focused on playing precision.

Its alder body benefits from Yamaha Acoustic Design technology, developed to optimize the wood's natural vibrations. Combined with a maple neck, a maple key and Gotoh hardware, this blue electric guitar offers a contemporary, stable and immediately inspiring playing feel. Its gloss polyurethane finishing highlights its bold character, while the satin neck remains comfortable during fast position changes.

An evolving electric guitar for the studio, stage and modern styles

The Pacifica Standard Plus PACS+12 is aimed at the demanding beginner who wants to start out on a durable instrument, as well as intermediate and advanced guitarists looking for a versatile electric guitar. Its ergonomics, double cutaway and easy upper-fret access support both chord learning and more advanced techniques: bends, legato, fast playing, tapping and vibrato.

Its HSS configuration is particularly well suited to pop, rock, funk, blues, fusion and contemporary music. The single-coil pickups provide the necessary snap for rhythm parts, arpeggios and carefully shaped clean tones. The bridge humbucker delivers the power needed for heavy riffs, singing solos and thicker overdrive tones. This is a guitar that feels equally at home on a modern pedalboard or plugged directly into an amplifier.

A clear, dynamic HSS palette with generous sustain

The alder body provides a balanced tonal foundation: the lows remain tight, the mids retain their presence and the highs stay well defined. This versatile character allows the guitar to sit naturally in a band mix without an excess of overpowering frequencies. The maple neck enhances the attack and liveliness of every note, while the maple key encourages a direct and bright response.

The Reflectone HH7b humbucker bridge pickup delivers output, body and sustain. It is particularly effective with overdrive or distortion, while preserving good note clarity in saturated chords. The Reflectone HS7n single-coil pickups in the neck and middle positions produce open, crystalline and articulate tones, ideal for funk comping, pop rhythms or more nuanced blues sounds.

The 5-way selector makes it easy to move between the different tonal colors, from the round sound of the neck pickup to the sharper attack of the bridge pickup. The push-pull tone control can also split the humbucker for a finer response that is closer to that of a single-coil pickup. This electronic flexibility gives the PACS+12 genuine adaptability, whether playing clean or in high-gain registers.

Recommended compatible accessories

To preserve the original touch and balance, a set of electric guitar strings in 0.009-0.042 gauge is particularly suitable. A standard strap can be used for playing standing up during rehearsals or on stage. Since the PACS+12 is supplied with a gig bag, it already has practical protection for everyday transport and storage between sessions.

Technical specifications

Electronics: microphone configuration	HSS	Body	Alder
Category	ST	Bridge / tailpiece	Tremolo
Left handed	No	Electronics	Passive
Strings	Steel	Electroacoustic	No
Nbr of strings	6	Color	Blue
Fingerboard	Maple	Finishing	Glossy
Nbrs of frets	22	Hardware	Chromed

Type	electric guitar	Thickness at 1st fret	20.0 mm / 0.79"
Format	double cutaway	Thickness at 12th fret	22.4 mm / 0.88"
Body-neck joint	bolt-on	Bridge	Gotoh 510T FE-1
Body finishing	glossy polyurethane	Bridge/tailpiece	vibrato
Neck	maple	Tuners	Gotoh locking
Neck finishing	satin polyurethane	String spacing	10.8 mm / 0.43"
Key	maple	Number of strings	6
Number of frets	22	Pickup configuration	HSS
Scale length	25.5" / 648 mm	Bridge pickup	Reflectone HH7b humbucker
Radius	13.78" / 350 mm	Middle pickup	Reflectone HS7n single-coil
Nut	Graph Tech TUSQ	Neck pickup	Reflectone HS7n single-coil
Nut width	42.0 mm / 1.65"	Controls	Master Volume and push-pull tone with coil split
12th-fret width	52.4 mm / 2.06"	Selector	5-way